2.26.2008

FUNNY PAGES MINUS THE FUNNY

If you’ve grown disillusioned with the boring comic strips on the funny pages, check out the brilliant “Garfield Minus Garfield” website where someone has posted a great collection of Garfield comic strips after photoshopping Garfield out of the strip. What remains is Garfield’s lonely owner, Jon, in a surreal and darkly funny strip about the empty desperation of modern life. “Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle,” says the intro to the site. “Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against lonliness and methamphetamine addiction in a quiet American suburb.” Check it out at at GarfieldMinusGarfield.Tumblr.com.